When is Melania Trump not Melania Trump? When internet conspiracy theorists decide that the Melania Trump-looking lady standing next to our illegitimate president is a secret imposter. Never mind that this women is OBVIOUSLY MELANIA WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT.

You know what’s fake for real? Donald’s “concern” for fallen soldiers. And a lot of his much touted charitable contributions.

Here’s the tweet that started the whole #FakeMelania thing.

This is not Melania. To think they would go this far & try & make us think its her on TV is mind blowing. Makes me wonder what else is a lie pic.twitter.com/JhPVmXdGit

I got distracted looking at the Girl Guides UK website. Much more interesting that the Trumps.

Prepare for a completely off-topic ramble about my years as a Guide.

I was a Brownie, Guide and Young Leader. Guiding was my life from the age of 8 to 19. SO many changes over the decades, thankfully moving away from its paternalistic, patriotism-soaked roots. I was there when girls started being allowed to join Scouts, in the mid-late nineties, and when the uniform changed from the brown or blue cotton dresses to t-shirts, sweatshirts and trousers or culottes. The Rainbows were still wearing tabards though. That must have been about 1991. Looking at the Girl Guiding UK website it looks like they’ve updated the uniforms and books again.

I’m still in touch with both my Brownie leaders and my Guide leader. They had a lot of influence on my life. They were integral parts of the community in my little town, my Guide leader was a Marie Curie Nurse, and the local vicar’s wife, and the Brownie leaders were teachers at a local primary school.

Does the nazi in question not realize he’s wearing his hair in the style of a Jamaican Rude Boy?

@Conspiracies: Shamefully, Conspiracy theories are rampant amongst Autonomists, Anarchists, Communists and Socialists here as well, and I know way too many otherwise decent comrades, who are quite into 9/11-truthing, Illuminati/Rothschild-conspiracies and a slew of other weirdness. For a lot of them, it stems from being brought in through “Awakened” hiphop from the 00’s or from not being quite critical enough, but it’s been a near-constant thing in all circles I’ve set foot in over the years, from die-hard anticapitalists, environmentalists, the punk scene (which is highly politicised over here). It seems that some people desperately need to dehumanise the architects of our oppression, by making it about reptillians, Freemasons and ancient conspiracies fostered by secretive cabals, rather than the very overt forces of Capitalism and Patriarchy.

We Hunted the Mammoth tracks and mocks the white male rage underlying the rise of Trump and Trumpism. This blog is NOT a safe space; given the subject matter -- misogyny and hate -- there's really no way it could be.